First Fridays’ uncertain future hinges on collaboration

Half an hour after the meeting was supposed to start, Daniel Dolan called for the participants to gather. They had trickled into the Stork Club and were now scattered around the bar, some with pints in hand, until Dolan finally herded them into the next room to get down to the business at hand: a mission statement.

“I think First Friday is probably the most tangible evidence of the cultural renaissance that’s happening in Oakland,” a local journalist said.